If you’re stuck on anything, I’d love to help if I can.
This is an important part of me making sure that my book is as effective as I believe it is! If I missed something in helping you to get value from the manuscript, or I didn’t inspire you to take action, then I can do better. And I’d love your help in making my book as effective as possible.
Reply on back and let me know what you implemented or where you got stuck!
How do I know if my book is “working”? According to Rob Fitzpatrick, author of Write Useful Books, I want to assure that my manuscript is Desirable, Engaging, and Effective.
Illustration by Rob Fitzpatrick, author of Write Useful Books, on how to know if my book is “working”.
Once I know that what I wrote is desirable, engaging, and effective, I can move on from the Beta Reader phase and into the final editing and publishing step of this journey.
So how am I doing on these? Let’s look at each one…
Desirable: I’m hearing from clients, prospects, and beta readers that the promise is desirable. You even helped me dial in a promise based title of Your Business Growth Playbook: Breakthrough Strategies to Scale Your Business for Business Owners Who’ve Outgrown Hustle ! Thank you!
Engaging: Early beta readers like you are sharing great feedback from the intro through the first 5 chapters. The real core content – the actual playbook strategies – is in the next 3 chapters, and I’m not sure if the size of the chapters is scaring folks off, or it’s just a time thing, but that seems to be where I begin to get less reads and feedback. I’d love your specific feedback on the three core chapters about “Increasing the …” . So I’d consider this step “in process” for now.
Effective: Well, I know that all these strategies work because it’s literally my playbook of strategies I’ve used with clients for over 25 years. But do you, the reader, know that? Have you tried what I’ve written? Did it help you? Did it work for you? I’d really love some feedback on what you have been able to implement and how that went for you.
Thank you for helping me to gauge how desirable, engaging, and effective my manuscript it. I’m eager to finish dialing this in and ship a bestseller!
Thank you so much to our early beta readers who provided such great feedback on the Introduction and the first five chapters. I’ve made those edits and the latest manuscript is now online for YOU!
That means I’m ready for your honest feedback on the 3 Core Chapters of the book. This is the meat. This is the actual playbook of strategies. This is truly Your Business Growth Playbook! The intro and earlier chapters were all in service of these 3 chapters!
Do you have some time today to dive in and provide feedback?
The three chapters in need of your help are the three that start with “Increasing the…” which you’ll see in the sidebar table of contents.
Thank you in advance! I know reading and leaving feedback takes time. But you’re a reader, you’ve asked to help, and these strategies can help you in your business, too!
What kind of beta reader are you? Maximum mess, some mess, or pretty close to finished product?
I should have asked this earlier on as I’ve learned that some folks like to get their hands dirty with an earlier draft and provide feedback while things are rough, while others want to read a book shortly before it’s published and more of a finished product.
Either way,Your Business Growth Playbook, is now already getting some great beta reader feedback (and by “great”, I mean super helpful).
If you don’t yet have early access to the entire book like my other wonderful beta readers and would like to… reply on back and let me know what kind of beta reader you are! Are you a “Maximum Mess”, “Some Mess”, or “Pretty Close to Finished Product” beta reader?
Three exciting updates for you today. First, my book is officially titled!
Thank you for your feedback and votes. The overwhelmingly strong winner was “Your Business Growth Playbook” !
That title was the most liked and had the most top two and top three votes and the least fourth and fifth place votes meaning it was both strongly popular and not strongly unpopular!
Second, on the admin side: ISBN numbers have been assigned; US Copyright Office application is started; Library of Congress registration is started; professional line editor has been hired; book cover designers are actively applying. LOTS of “not the writing part of book publishing” is happening.
Lastly, and most exciting for you, I’ll have the the first full book preview draft available for you this week. This is my final version before you get to provide real feedback before it goes off to the professional editor.
If you’re open to reading my book in the next week, and providing some super simple online feedback (like clicking sections to say “I love this!” or “this is useful” or “this is confusing” and so on), please reply on back and let me know and I’ll get you your personal link to access the book in full!
Thank YOU! The “finish line” (if there is one, hah!) feels closer than ever!
